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Re: "Sacred" as a prehistoric adjec...
Aug 09, 2005, 17:15
>"Special Spaces" might do nicely, but I'll accept whatever you come up with. I DO expect you to rise to the occasion though... ;)<

Trouble is it's not just the meaning of a word it's how the word trips off the tongue :-)

In the final 'd' sound of 'sacred' the tongue is in a convenient position to flip into practically any other position (no crude jokes here please), and so into any other sound it wants to make - that's why it's easy to say sacred site and harder to say religious places, black and white and not white and black etc. That's why certain expressions often take hold even though we might not be happy with the etymology - they're just easier to say and somehow 'sound right'.
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